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40 Spanish forces to him. Now I am young, I know, hut I am big and strong, and I know  my way around the walls and outside the city  as well and perhaps better than anyone in  Leyden. And I want to do something! I can’t sit around idle while all are helping in  one way or another. Why dost thou look so white and frightened, Jacqueline?”

“Ah, Gysbert! thou must not do this! Thou wilt surely be captured and killed. Ah! I cannot allow it, nor will Vrouw Voorhaas!”

“Vrouw Voorhaas must not know of it,—at least at first. And thou must not interfere with me, dear sister. I know that our father, were he alive, would approve of my  decision. Did he not always tell us to be courageous, and would he not wish us to  serve our city in this great distress?” This  argument silenced Jacqueline’s remonstrances.

“Do what thou wilt, Gysbert, since thou thinkest that our father would approve, only